Beyond the Lines; or, A Yankee Prisoner Loose in Dixie. But the Wallace's had only an adopted daughter. How-To Tutorials; Suggestions; Machine Translation Editions; Noahs Archive Project; About Us. There should definitely have been enough time to get them uniforms before the battle. “The Work of the Catholic Sister-Nurses in the Civil War.” M.A. So, I believed the statement to be untrue... until I re-read Thomas Worthington's Brief History of the 46th Ohio. Philadelphia: Catholic Art Publishing Co., 1897. “Historical, Social, Economic, and Demographic Data from the U.S. Decennial Census.” http://icg.harvard.edu/~hist1651/census/. WI16thJim, October 15, 2013 in Local Civilians, I found this at The University of Texas at Tyler: http://www.uttyler.edu/vbetts/shiloh.htm, Civilians in Hardin County, Tennessee, Spring, 1862. 2nd ed. Even four or five miles beyond Savannah, he could hear the cannon clearly and distinctly, and the volleys of muskets. “Letters from Shiloh.” Iowa Journal of History 52 (1954): 235-280. In a more modest home in town, Major John Brinton became friends with another local family who were “’secesh’ to the back-bone.” They had two sons in the Confederate service, and five daughters. All through the night steamboats had been running to and from Pittsburg Landing, carrying up, troops, artillery and ammunition for Buell’s army, and returning with hundreds of wounded, men from the first day’s battle. The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. New York: Neale Pub. U.S. Bureau of the Census. Medical transport boats made trip after trip from both Pittsburg Landing and Hamburg through June 19. Everywhere could be seen torn garments, haversacks, and other personal equipment of the soldiers. Ann Wallace, while caring for the wounded aboard one of the transports on Sunday, received word that her husband had been killed and his body left on the battlefield. Unexpected, grand, and indeed terrible, it was, to the inhabitants along the forest-girded banks of the Tennessee.” The fleet included up to a hundred steamers, “laden to the guards with soldiers, cattle, and munitions of war.” The “decks were dark with blue coated soldiers. Shiloh, Hardin County, Tennessee synonyms, Shiloh, Hardin County, Tennessee pronunciation, Shiloh, Hardin County, Tennessee translation, English dictionary definition of Shiloh, Hardin County, Tennessee. Hinman’s regiment reached Savannah at about 10 a.m., Monday morning, April 7th. 2 synonyms for battle of Shiloh: battle of Pittsburgh Landing, Shiloh. Among the nurses in town was Mother Bickerdyke, helping to clean and bandage wounds, and cooking for the troops. We filled our buckets with water, from the springs and gave the thirsty men. It is hard to estimate how many women were at Pittsburg landing and on the battlefield. 131-132. Hays, Tony. At Pittsburg Landing, the fighting front had pushed back into the interior. Shiloh Military Park occupies this site. The hospital boat City of Memphis took 410 sick men to St. Louis, and the Louisiana, with Mrs. Harriet R. Colfax aboard, took over three hundred downriver. By Monday, Federal food supplies were running low, and sickness began to spread aboard the transports. Shiloh was the site of the Battle of Shiloh. Vernon, Indiana. One merchant, W. A. Pettigrew, may have operated a storehouse on the landing, but the Federal gunboats had probably driven him away well before the arrival of the Union army. Dubuque [iowa] Herald, April 16, 1862; May 1, 1862; May 25, 1862. Souvenir seekers went to work immediately. . All were overwhelmed at the amount of destruction which stretched back from the landing for at least five miles—“scarred trees, . Also, security was so relaxed in this ostensibly loyal home that Annie’s brother James, the brothers of Cherry’s first wife, and some of the Hardin boys, all in the Confederate army, would sneak into the basement at night and listen to Federal staff meetings in the dining room above! Two points of interest present themselves: The "official status" question will not be addressed in this post. . No cloud was in the sky but the rumbling continued. Hardin County is located in southern West Tennessee. . References. . ), Reference:  http://archive.org/stream/briefhistoryof4600wort#page/n153/mode/2up  Worthington's Brief History of the 46th Ohio. The Army Committees of the Young Men’s Christian Association (soon to be part of the U. S. Christian Commission) of St. Louis and Chicago sent delegates of volunteers. Newcomb, M. A. From Forest to Farm: Hardin County History to 1860. So many visitors were managing to make the trip that on April 3, Grant wrote his wife: “It will be impossible for you to join me at present. The county is named for Colonel Joseph Hardin, who blazed a trail through Southwest Tennessee’s thick woodlands in the early 1800s to map 2,000 acres of rich land on … He was concerned that the boys were developing too strong a liking for it , this being their first time away from home. Nashville: University of Tennessee Press, 1977. The Personal Experiences of Colonel Horace Newton Fisher in the Civil War. Total population was 11,214, which included 1623 slaves and 37 free blacks. http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1862/may/censorship.htm   In conjunction with the above link to Harper's Weekly May 17th 1862, which features the sketch of Major Belle Reynolds on page 317 is the article (beginning column one, page 306) of the same edition. Those groans were in my ears; I saw again the quivering limbs, the spouting arteries, and the pinched and ghastly faces of the sufferers.”. -- signed John Rawlins (for US Grant) [Papers of US Grant voume 4 page 326]. Mr. & Miss Safford were up here and returned a few days ago.” One of the last to make the trip was Ann Wallace, the wife of Gen. W. H. L. Wallace, who was on a boat along with a “kind woman nurse that belonged to Colonel Ross’ regiment on board with sanitary supplies.” Ann had had a premonition that her husband would need her, and had decided to come without her husband’s knowledge or permission. We tore our aprons in little squares, filled them, with grass and leaves and stopped some gaping wounds that were bleeding. Shiloh; or, The Tennessee Campaign of 1862. One witness wrote: “The weather was soft and fine, and one or more flags floated over every boat. shattered muskets, disabled cannon, broken wagons, and all the heavier debris of battle. Washington: M’Gill & Withrow, 1872. Hood came to Mary Ann Newcomb determined to do something to help the wounded, so we got some tin buckets and went about two miles back from the river to a point, where there had been fighting a short time before. After five days “she raised her languid eyes and asked, ‘Have I done my duty?’ The doctor assured her that she had, then, with a weary sigh, she said, ‘Good-bye; I will go to sleep.’” A soldier-carpenter made a coffin from cracker boxes and the nurses “wreathed it in flowers from the battlefield.” She was buried beneath “three large trees that grew on the bank of the Tennessee River” with a “rude board headpiece, bearing her name.” Other nurses, such as Belle Reynolds, continued to be haunted by bad dreams. At least one resident even told the Yankees that General Beauregard had visited both Pittsburg Landing and Adamsville, as a “peddler of pies and cakes.” Other citizens, including probably either the McCuller or Bell family, stayed at home, even up until the battle started, when William H. Lowe of the 55th Illinois Volunteer Infantry saw a woman and a man at a cabin in that area. “Bickerdyke, Mary Ann” in National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Woman’s Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience. The Southern cause was at its zenith in Hardin County. By the first of May, the bulk of the federal army was inching its way to Corinth, and presumably the residents of the 15th Civil District, Hardin County were free to return to their farms, or what was left of them. To us all. Mrs. Anna McMahon served at one of the hospitals set up at Pittsburg Landing. Chattanooga: Kitchen Table Press, 1986. Three groups of civilians saw the war from the closest possible perspective—the people of Savannah, the people of the Pittsburg Landing area, and the northern citizens who either accompanied the transports south, or who came to aid the wounded immediately after the battle of Shiloh. There were only twenty-three slaves in the entire district, belonging to eight owners. Modenia Weston, the “mother” of the 3rd Iowa Infantry, had just managed to get the regiment’s bout with diarrhea under control at Stacy Field. Unionists were elated at the news, but Confederates were terrified at the prospect. Many of the civilian nurses served throughout the time period, and Sanitary Commission officials continued to replenish whatever medical supplies the soldiers needed. Wallace, Isabel. In fact, we were both en dishabille when a big cannon-shot tore through the tent. “The Battle of Shiloh Remembered: Memories of Caldonia Banks.” Hardin County Historical Society Quarterly 4 (April-June 1986): 5. Within twenty-four hours news of the battle reached Chicago, St. Louis, and Cincinnati. However, within ten minutes they were all ordered to the transports, where at one point Bell, on the hurricane deck, was handed a revolver and ordered to assist a lieutenant in keeping panicked soldiers away from the boat. Groups, were collected at every house. Baker, Nina Brown. Belle Reynolds became a physician after the war, graduating from Hahneman Medical College in Chicago. (This research gives me greater appreciation for the presence of women at Pittsburg Landing prior to the April 6th Battle, and afterwards: an important facet of the whole story neglected by most school texts. Wilkie, Franc B. Coleman gives a summary. Mrs. Jerusha Small turned her tent into a temporary hospital and tore up “all her spare clothing and dresses to make bandages and compresses and pillows” for the wounded. Boston: n.p., 1960. Those shot which had killed a horse, so much the more valuable; those which had killed a man, precious as gold. [Of interest because U.S. Grant knew of the State intention to draft men into Confederate service, but Sherman did not. Upon arriving at Pittsburg Landing they debarked and searched the battlefield for wounded, brought them aboard the transports, and cared for them as they were transported to Northern hospitals. Gen. William T. Sherman had located his troops upstream at Pittsburg Landing on March 16, and when Gen. U. S. Grant arrived at Savannah the next day, Sherman urged that the army be moved to that more strategic location.